Need to change my user name. - Computers & Internet

If it's a wordpress site then you need to log in with your current name, create a new user name first and give it full admin rights and a password. You can then log in with the new user name as admin and delete your old user name. I'm guessing that it will be the same process for other web sites as well.

You have to make 2 changes, One for the computer and one for the user. Here is how you do both:
CHANGE COMPUTER NAME:

1. Right click my computer and select properties
2. Select "Advanced System Settings" (skip if win xp)
3. Select "Computer Name" tab
4. click "change"
5. Enter the name of your choice

CHANGE USER NAME:
You cannot change a user account by just changing the name. Just changing the name will make a cosmetic change only and not affect the underlying files/folders in the profile.

1. From an account with administrative privileges, go to Control Panel>User Accounts and create the new Standard user account named the way you want and at least one extra Administrator account. Call the latter "CompAdmin" or "Tech" or the like.
2. Log into the new Standard user account once so the profile files/folders are created and then log into CompAdmin.
3. Now go to Control Panel>System>Advanced>User Profiles>Settings
4. You will see where you can copy user accounts. Copy the old account to the new one from there. Use the Browse to select your new account (C:\Users\newaccount).
5. Log into the new correctly named account and make sure all your stuff is there and that it works the way you want. When you are satisfied, you can log out and into CompAdmin and delete the old user account from Control Panel>User Accounts.

If you wish to log into your new, corrected account automatically, do this:Start Orb>Search box>type: netplwiz [enter]
Click on Continue (or supply an administrator's password) when prompted by UAC

Uncheck the option "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer". Select a user account to automatically log on by clicking on the desired account to highlight it and then hit OK. Enter the correct password for that user account (if there is one) when prompted. Leave it blank if there is no password (null).

Usually to change the user name on a laptop ..you have to have admin rights on the user account and go to control panel ..and select user accounts..and get in ..On the page select the user account you want to change ..and in its settings select the change name ..or change password or whatever you need to change ..and follow instructions ..usually will ask for password when making changes..

look at on MyComputer, you must as administrator too do it.

1. right click -> manage
2. find "Local user & Group" -> Users
3. find your name -> Right click "Properties"
4. Type on full name with Your Change New Name.

Hi,
a) If your Operating System is Windows XP follow the step:
Open Control Panel from Start menu (or open RUN and type CONTROL and enter). There you can able to find out User Accounts. Double Click on that and you can able to find out the available users on that PC. Click on the User that you need to change the name. You can able to view the option Change my name. Click on that and change the name and give OK.

b) If your Operating System is Windows 7 follow the step:
Open Control Panel from Start menu (or open RUN and type CONTROL and enter). Here you can find out the User Accounts. Open the User Accounts and you can able to view the users. Open the account that you need to change the name. Once you open the particular user, you can able to view the option Change your account name. Click on that and enter the new name and click on Change Name button. Now you can able to view the new name.

Please let me know the status.
Thanks for using FixYa.

Changing your Yahoo user name is not possible. Yahoo is a free email service and it does not have a feature that will allow you to change your user name.

If you would like to have a different user name, you need to create a new Yahoo mail account. Once created, you need to forward the important emails and contacts from your old Yahoo mail to your new one.

Thank you and good luck!

Go to CONTROL PANEL then click USER ACCOUNT then in the user account windows look for the user account that you want to change as you name then click CHANGE AN ACCOUNT . After you change Log out the computer and login your new user name

Hi, In Windows XP, if by "display name" you are referring to the username during login/logon, it can be replaced by going to Start, Control Panel, User Accounts, Change an Account, choose your account (last name), Change my Name, Provide New Name, follow all other on screen instructions. hope this be of help/idea. Post back how things turn up or should you need further information. Good luck and kind regards.